{"id":4740,"date":"2009-08-30T09:51:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2009-08-28T20:24:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T00:24:35","slug":"whats-a-good-description-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/30\/whats-a-good-description-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a Good Description Worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote about the highest priced single NOAC issue from\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574851416&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336381953&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=250483904502&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_self\">Black Eagle<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-decoration: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/roverimp\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=2&amp;pub=5574851416&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336381953&amp;customid=&amp;item=250483904502&amp;mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]\" alt=\"\" \/> Lodge.\u00c2\u00a0 The auction went for a final price of over $500.\u00c2\u00a0 The seller described it as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OA 482 BLACK EAGLE LODGE BEL 2009 NOAC CONTINGENT FLAP &#8211; VERY RARE &#8211; ONLY 2 ISSUED PER NOAC PARTICIPANT!<\/p>\n<p>Notice the ghost lettering and compare to similar BEL 2009 NOAC patches &#8211; the trader patch had black lettering and will be a much easier find.\u00c2\u00a0 This patch has ghost lettering and only two were issued to each of the few Black Eagle Lodge participants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This apparently was the delegate issue, but the &#8216;trader&#8217; was also pricey.\u00c2\u00a0 The prices varied widely depending on the quality of the description.<\/p>\n<p>One trader flap went for <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574851416&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336381953&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=320410938340&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_self\">$46.00<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;padding:0;margin:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/roverimp\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=2&amp;pub=5574851416&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336381953&amp;customid=&amp;item=320410938340&amp;mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]\" alt=\"\" \/> with no eBay picture and a simple description, a second flap went for <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574851416&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336381953&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=300337533771&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_self\">$64.21<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;padding:0;margin:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/roverimp\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=2&amp;pub=5574851416&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336381953&amp;customid=&amp;item=300337533771&amp;mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]\" alt=\"\" \/> this had a simple description, had an eBay picture but had more text devoted to seller requirements than description.<\/p>\n<p>The third item(below), ending 5 days later than the previous two flaps went for <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574851416&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336381953&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=200373876529&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_self\">$153.49<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;padding:0;margin:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/roverimp\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=2&amp;pub=5574851416&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336381953&amp;customid=&amp;item=200373876529&amp;mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]\" alt=\"\" \/> triple the first item. More buyer friendly? Bidders worried about not seeing another? Or something completely different.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574851416&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336381953&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=200373876529&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_self\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4741\" title=\"482 trader\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/482-trader.jpg?resize=450%2C135\" alt=\"482 trader\" width=\"450\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/482-trader.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/482-trader.jpg?resize=300%2C90&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clicking on the picture will bring you to the auction for the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<dl>\n<dt>Doing nothing is very hard to do &#8230; you never know when you&#8217;re finished.<\/dt>\n<dd><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quotes\/Leslie_Nielsen\/\">Leslie Nielsen<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>US (Canadian-born) comic movie actor  (1926 &#8211;  )<\/em><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote about the highest priced single NOAC issue from\u00c2\u00a0 Black Eagle Lodge.\u00c2\u00a0 The auction went for a final price of over $500.\u00c2\u00a0 The seller described it as OA 482 BLACK EAGLE LODGE BEL 2009 NOAC CONTINGENT FLAP &#8211; VERY RARE &#8211; ONLY 2 ISSUED PER NOAC PARTICIPANT! Notice the ghost lettering and compare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[191,146],"series":[],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebay","tag-191","tag-noac-2009","wpcat-55-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-1es","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/4743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}